In Wake Of 18 Murdered In Yet Another Mass Shooting, NRA-Funded Federal Agency Trains Children To Shoot Guns
In Wake Of 18 Murdered In Yet Another Mass Shooting, NRA-Funded Federal Agency Trains Children To Shoot Guns
Yes, because what America REALLY needs are school shooters with better aim.
It's 4-H. That is not exactly a radical organization.
yeah but we need to fearmonger about how gun bad, so, yanno.
So glad to see the NRA are finally training the kids. It’s always been obvious that the main reason for school shootings is that the children have been failing to protect themselves. After all, more adults with guns has greatly reduced the number of adult shootings, because why wouldn’t it? Good guys with the guns always stop bad guys with guns.
the next american generation will be trained from kindergarten to live with a war mentality. they'll train in escape tactics, how to be always aware of exits, how to identify the sound of gun fire, and this will be a constant presence in their daily lives.
also those kids will buy guns on mass once they reach adulthood, after all they have been trained from birth that they live in a war against an always present unknown enemy.
Information, not criticism. It's written "en masse"
This isn't something new the NRA has always had a role in training Americans to shoot. This article is just complaining that they let 4-H kids learn firearms safety and shoot a 22lr. Which they've been doing for decades.
As a teacher of children I’m beginning to think maybe it actually would be better if fancy LLMs just took my job.
I'm actually beginning to believe the setting for Ready Player One. In the next ten years it might just be cheaper and safer for children to be given a nice VR headset and attend school fully virtually, hell they might actually get a better education since it'll be easier to mute misbehaving children.
Not exactly going to work for kids under 12 or so, and there's probably lots of eye strain associated with being in a VR headset for hours upon hours, but hey at least the risk of being shot will be lower since there's clearly no way in hell that we will get laws to control weapons.
You assume that the primary purpose of public schools is to educate children. It's not. It's free daycare so both parents can go to work and contribute to gdp while barely treading water even with two incomes.
You’d have to fundamentally change how education is presented first in order to get 15-18 year olds to put on a headset for most of the day without “losing connection”, having “audio issues”, dogs “chewing cables”, or homework “getting corrupted”, etc.
oh no
which mass shooting? did I miss yet another one in the pile of headlines about mass shootings??
The one in Maine on Oct. 25th.
Another mass shooting! How PERFECT! I can finally pretend to care about the Constitution again! I'm a Pro Life Republican!
I’m surprised the NRA aren’t giving away a free gun to every family member over the age of 6 months. /s
That worked fine in Serbia ;(
I'm as anti-NRA as anybody, but 4-H teaching kids to shoot is not a big deal. I taught at a high school in Los Angeles that used to have a shooting range. It also had a marching band. Both are gone. Cutbacks, focus on the required classes, no money for frilly electives.
As someone from Belgium (a country where there's quite a lot of firearms in the hands of hunters and farmers (especially where I grew up) and where FN Herstalt is located), it sounds absolutely insane to have a shooting range at a school.
Well, it was a long time ago, and it probably had to do with the ROTC, which was a program to prepare high school students for military service.
The only way to stop school shooters is to arm students with guns?
/s
That's not sarcastic. You fools can't even use that bollocks right.
Hahaha so they have better skill in the future when they snap and kill half their school.
Omg republican really do be thinking with their wallets and not their pea sized brains
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good boy with a gun.
They’re giving guns to dogs now?!
UwU
It’s a line from a Sacha Baron Cohen thing where he was making right wingers look stupid. I guess I assumed it was more well known than it is!
This is such a bullshit article. Yeah the NRA is a terrible organization and there are a lot of reasons to attack them. But attacking the educational, gun safety and shooting sports programs that they offer or fund is complete bullshit and is detrimental to the public good.
This is like saying we shouldn’t offer driving classes because one day a student might get into an accident.
Correlation is not causation.
Out of all the things to criticise the NRA for, this is the last
Driving a car is not a valid comparison to using a gun.
You are correct guns are constitutionally protected and should not be regulated or licensed.
The problem is that the NRA also actively blocks things that will actually deal with the problem, like gun controls.
Gun control wasn’t the subject of the article nor was it what I posted about. Why are you trying to change the subject?
Interesting take
Would it not be better to teach kids that handguns are unnecessary, and only owned by criminals and cowards?
Or is that a bit too 21st century?
Why not both?
Guns are a fact of life in the US. Kids will be exposed to them. For every child killed in a mass shooting there are many more accidentally killed due to unsafe handling.
Ignoring this fact is the gun equivalent of "just say no."
Every person should know how to safely handle a firearm. They don't necessarily need to be expert shots, but they should know how to not accidentally shoot someone with one.
I'm a liberal gun owner and I have a standing offer to all of my anti-gun friends to show them and their families how to handle firearms, and the NRA has some great resources for teaching him safety for kids.
They're an evil organization, but they do a few things right.
What a bat shit insane take. 99.999% or more of guns are not used in crime. And how absolutely fucking ableist of you to assume everyone is physically capable of defending themself in hand to hand combat
Kids should be taught the value of diplomacy.
Telling children that drugs are bad, just say no, and never teaching them any actual information really worked out great. Drugs are outright illegal for everyone, why didn't that stop drugs?
Let's take that approach to something new that can be used to scare and divide people. Gun are bad, just say no. Make them all illegal. It's not like there are 19 year old felons with full auto hand guns already all over YouTube and tiktok(that's 3 federal crimes if you don't realize).
Keep people scared and divided. If they aren't they might start focusing on things that would actually save us like Healthcare, housing, income, employment, stability that everyone can have on our age of abundance.
No that would be factually untrue.
Shit, I’m a coward I guess.